Chapter 2

Hermione woke the next day with a slight smile on her face, because of course, she was thinking about Draco Malfoy. She got dressed and went down to the Great Hall to get some breakfast. As she in she spotted Harry and Ron she took her usual seat.

"Morning guys" she yawned.

"Hey Hermione. We got our new time tables" Harry said, handing hers over. Hermione looked down and saw that she had Potions first period. She quietly ate her breakfast as she watched Harry talking with Ginny, and Ron once again, was sitting with Parviti and Lavendor.

Hermione scowled as the two girls linked his arms and were fluttering their eyelashes. They never showed any interest in Ron before, what was so different now? Hermione stood and left to go to Potions. Naturally, she was the first one and started to pull out her books. Snape was at his desk and he glowered at her. But she kept her cool and went to read one of her many books. Soon, the class filled with the rest of the Gryiffindors and Slytherins, so with that the lesson started.

"Today," Snape sneered at the class, and the noise died down immediately, "we will be making an extremely powerful potion. If you make one false move, so much as having added a drop more of an ingredient than needed, the potion will end up useless." The class groaned at this, but Snap chose to ignore that and continued. "I will be putting you in partners of the other houses. I want you all to co-operate."

Snape started reading of a list of people:
"Longbottom, Neville – Crabbe, Vincent. Potter, Harry – Parkinson, Pansy. Brown, Lavendor – Goyle, Gregory. Weasley, Ron – Blasie, Zabini. Granger Hermione – Malfoy, Draco…"

Hermione didn't bother listening to the rest of the list as she went to get the ingredients and Malfoy started to set up the cauldron. She sat down next to him and pulled open her book.

"Alright, first we need to crush the vampire tooth into a fine powder." Hermione reached for the tooth and said "You start cutting the flubberworm into pieces." Malfoy looked scowled at the fact of her telling him what to do, but then again, Hermione was the top of everyclass. Mumbling, he took the flubberworm and cut it into pieces.

"Malfoy! You have to cut the pieces smaller than that! Otherwise it will never mix in… smaller… smaller… oh come on you know what I mean!" Malfoy snickered as he barely changed the size of the pieces. Hermione rolled her eyes but couldn't help but grin.

After about what seemed to be a few hours an angry voice was heard:

"Longbottom! Crabbe!"

Everyone looked up from their potions to see Snape looking down at the two students, but mostly Neville. "If you look in the text" Snape said coldly, "you'll notice that the potion by now should be thick and a bright shade of green. So, Mr. Longbottom, why is your potion noticeably thin and of the colour orange?"

Neville was pale and looked on the verge of tears. His hands were shaking and he started to flip the pages of his text when he hit the cauldron and the incorrect potion spilled all over himself and Crabbe. They cried out as the robes wore away where the potion touched and they started getting a nasty blue rash.

"Malfoy! Granger! Take these two to the Hospital Wing!" Snape spat, looking utterly disgusted at his students.

Not daring to argue, Hermione and Draco got up quickly and helped the other two to the Hospital Wing. They were giving a series of potions after Draco and Hermione were shooed away. As they walked down the hall together the bell ran and the loud rumble of students through the corridors was heard.

Soon a mob of students were coming after them and Hermione and Draco hand to go against the wall so they wouldn't be squished. Wow, Hermione thought, these corridors really do get packed.

She was pushed by a rushing Ravenclaw right into Draco's chest. Feeling her ears starting to burn she avoided eye contact, but was surprised when he wrapped one of his arms around her as if to protect her from the numerous students. Soon the bell rang again and almost instantly the students had all disappeared into their classrooms.

Hermione and Draco were still against the wall together. Hermione would at first have thought to leave to go to class, but she had a free period before lunch and she looked up at Draco. But before she could meet his eyes he turned her so her back was to the wall and laid a passionate kiss on her lips. She moaned deep in his mouth, as if she had been waiting to do this when all the students left. As a result of the moan Draco pushed into her waist to get closer to her as he deepened the kiss.

Hermione wrapped her arms around Draco as he practically put his tongue down her throat. For so long Hermione had wanted to be with Draco, even though they hated each other. If only he had known how much it hurt to love someone she had to hate.

Draco started to thrust against her and she in return bucked her hips up to him. She felt his hard length against her and she gasped. She started to lick and kiss his neck.

"Oh, Draco…" She opened his shirt so his chest was bare but still leaving the shirt on. She noticed that his perfect abdomen had a few bruises before she kissed, licked and bite him. He gasped at this as he pushed and thrusted against her harder.

His hands started to move up her shirt and she shivered at his light the light touch tickled her spin when suddenly he stopped. Footsteps. Someone was approaching. Draco quickly buttoned his shirt and lead Hermione to the nearest door. He pushed her in and closed the door behind her. Hermione was about to yell after him through the door when she realized that she was in a classroom.

Charms to be exact. With the First Years. Hermione stood in total shock as the entire class, including Professor Flitwick, stared at her in surprise. It could have been that she entered so suddenly, or possibly because her hair was all over the place and her shirt was wrinkled in an unprofessional manner.

"Miss Granger!" Flitwick squeaked. "What brings you to Charms?"

"Um…" Hermione felt the colour rush from her face as she looked around. "Ah… well… I was told that… this is First Years correct? Yes well… I was told that I was needed for a… um a…. demonstration?" she asked hopefully.

Flitwick looked at her for a moment, when we shook his head as though to clear his thoughts. He turned to her and said "Well Miss Granger, I suppose that you could help us with the spell Wingardium Leviosa."

Hermione sighed in relief and went to the centre of the class and took out her wand. "The first thing you need to know is that this spell involves a 'swish and flick' action" she started…

Much later, the bell ran and Hermione stumbled out of the Charms room and made her way to lunch, half furious at what Malfoy had done, and half embarrassed because she had to teach First Years the spell that she had taught to Ron in their First Year.

She saw Malfoy walking down the corridor again and he walked up to her.

"YOU!" she snarled.

Malfoy smirked at her as she glowered at him. "You pushed me! Into a random classroom! WHY!"

"Oh come off it Hermione." He winked when he said her first name and she looked at him in surprise. "Crabbe and Longbottom were coming back from the Hospital Wing. What if they saw me with you? You know how they would react?"

She looked at him. That hurt, he was embarrassed to be seen with her.

With that she slightly pushed him away and ran for the Great Hall. She wiped away the already forming tears as she sat down with Ron and Harry at the Gryffindor Table for lunch and was surprised to see Ron without his two stalker girls.

"Hey Hermione!" Harry said brightly. "Where did you go after dropping Neville and Crabbe to the Hospital Wing?"

Before she could reply Ron said "I bet Malfoy got to you again, didn't he? He's been after you for some while. I know he's up to something… I just can't put my finger on it"

Hermione started to blush furiously again and turned to Ron to change the subject. "Oh never mind Malfoy. So anyways… where's Parviti and Lavendor?"

Harry cocked an eyebrow as he too noticed that Ron wasn't sitting with the too girls. Ron started going as red as his hair as he said in a barely audible whisper. "They wanted a threesome eh? But I think that was an excuse… you see how those two girls are always together. Honestly I'll say that they want to be an item if you know what I mean. Bloody hell…"

Harry laughed loudly at Ron's expression as Hermione rolled her eyes. "Come off it Ron." Harry said, still laughing. "If they want to be together then let them. I think that if they like each other, then they should be together and not worry about what others think."

Hermione suddenly stood up and the two boys looked at her in surprise. "Harry, your RIGHT!" she said with a huge grin on her face and without another word, she ran from the Great Hall. She was going to find Malfoy, but then she stopped to think it over.

What if Malfoy didn't want to be with me? As a couple? He did push me into that classroom…

Sadly she started towards the library, not wanting to go back to lunch.